Example sentences of "and not [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invalidity would be the result of non-conformity to statutory purposes and not of non-conformity to the common law . |
| 2 | By the 1880s Blue Books almost always originated from the government and not in response to parliamentary demands . |
| 3 | If the wavecut platform extends much further seawards than the projection of the degraded cliff it seems very likely that much of the platform was cut in the past at the foot of the cliff which has now become degraded and not in relation to the present active section at the bottom of the cliff , the state of affairs shown in Fig. 8.13 . |
| 4 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 5 | In some countries where religion is not acknowledged to be in any way a necessary part of life , and also to a lesser degree in some where it is , the very important regular holidays , i.e. the single days or short periods of relief from work , which are spaced throughout the year , and which are additional to the long summer vacations , are fixed by arbitrary law and not by reference to religious feast days . |
| 6 | It was decided that the damages for loss of housekeeping services should be assessed by reference to the plaintiff 's loss of wages and not by reference to the cost of providing a housekeeper , since his loss of wages represented the cost of providing the services of a full-time housekeeper and substitute for the wife . |